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Cocido means nothing more than cooked, but the namesake dish — a boil of beef and seasonal vegetables ... going from hardest to softest. The below recipe is just one example of what the ...

Then we travel halfway across the world for a Chinese beef stew with chickpeas and star anise. And finally, we make a recipe for toasted pearl couscous with butternut squash and cranberries.

In this recipe, the onion, celery and garlic hit the oven with the beef because these aromatic vegetables will lend their essence to the broth and enrich the stew. If you add the carrots and ...